Several people who own Amazon’s Echo speakers have reported a strange bug: the Alexa voice assistant has been laughing for no reason.
Some users on Twitter and Reddit say the outbursts have been entirely spontaneous. Others have said that Alexa has laughed after...

If there seems to be more people using Chinese smartphones in the streets of Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta or Manila, that is because these brands now collectively outsell Samsung Electronics, the long-standing market leader in Southeast Asia.
Oppo, Vivo and Huawei Tech...

Foxconn Industrial Internet, a unit of the world’s biggest contract manufacturer whose products include Apple’s iPhones, was put on the fast track for securing the nod by China’s securities regulator to raise capital through an initial public offering.
The unit ...

Tencent Holdings, the world’s largest video game company, is betting that its new initiatives in advertising and social media would spur growth amid renewed debate in China over gaming addiction among the youth.
“Social and performance-based advertising will be ...

While Samsung dominated the headlines from this year’s Mobile World Congress with the unveiling of its new flagship phones, the Galaxy S9 and S9+, LG – South Korea’s other tech giant – quietly announced a minor update to its autumn 2017 flagship, phone, the V30....

Chinese travellers may have one more essential gadget to pack for overseas trips after Sogou, China’s second largest search engine after Baidu, launched an AI-powered language translator, with more than 3,000 pre-sold within the first 24 hours.
The gadget, which...

Honor, the mobile sub-brand of Huawei Technologies that helped it become the world’s third-largest smartphone supplier, is likely to double its overseas shipments this year, underscoring the Chinese company’s dual-brand strategy with handsets available in a rang...

WeChat, China’s biggest social network and messaging app with more than 1 billion users, disabled the comments section of newly registered official accounts on Tuesday to comply with a Chinese government request.
Tencent Holdings, which operates the app on the C...

China, already the world’s biggest smartphone and internet market, appears set to become a major consumer of a range of gadgets enabled with artificial intelligence (AI), including voice-activated smart speakers and robots for the home, according to a new study....

Chip maker Qualcomm, blocked this week from a takeover bid amid national security fears, was already walking a Pacific tightrope: it has government and defence contracts in the United States, but two-thirds of its revenue come from China.
US President Donald Tru...

Multinational companies are experimenting with new ways to grab the attention of China’s consumers and are willing to spend several million yuan to garner attention in the world’s largest market.
The tool that companies such as McDonald’s and Nike have chosen ...

One moment, Cheetah Mobile CEO Fu Sheng was on stage at Beijing’s Water Cube telling the gathered journalists about his decision to push the app and livestreaming company into hardware, the next he was standing pool-side, before diving into the same po...

Vivo, either China’s second or third-largest phonemaker by market share depending on the month (the order shuffles every quarter), has announced a new mid-tier device to target the Southeast Asia market. The V9 is not going on sale – officially, anyway...

After five failed attempts over the past month, Indian college student Bhavsar Hardik recently succeeded in placing an online order for his dream smartphone – the Redmi Note 5 Pro from Xiaomi.
The handset “looks like the iPhone X”, he said.
The 19-year...

Naspers, the biggest shareholder of China’s largest social network operator, said it’s selling shares in Tencent Holdings for the first time in 17 years to raise capital to reinforce its balance sheet and for investments into new businesses.
The Cape T...

They may look almost identical to last year’s Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8+, but the South Korean company’s Galaxy S9 and S9+ still stand out from the crowd, with other big Android phones – from the upcoming Huawei P20 to OnePlus’ next releases – all copyi...

Huawei Technologies has promoted Sabrina Meng Wanzhou, its chief financial officer (CFO) and daughter of company founder Ren Zhengfei, to vice-chairwoman as part of a broader reshuffle that once again shone a light onto the unique management structure ...

By Chloe Aiello
Myspace co-founder Tom Anderson, or “Myspace Tom” as he is best known, is taking full advantage of his early retirement. Anderson enjoys travel, photography, burning man — and trolling Facebook .
Anderson bashed Facebook by re-tweeting ...

Twitter is joining Facebook and Google in banning advertisements for initial coin offerings and token sales on its social-media platform.
“Advertisement of Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) and token sales will be prohibited globally,” a Twitter spokespers...

By Manjit Kaur
On Tuesday, WhatsApp messages with photographs of a tiger were spread in Malaysia, telling people that the animal was spotted near the state National Registration Department in the northwestern city of Ipoh.
The messages said that people...

By Allan SmithFormer New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani wore Apple’s AirPods in incorrect fashion in a photo posted to Twitter on Tuesday — and the internet jumped all over it.
Giuliani was photographed with Republican strategist Rick Wilson, who posted...

By Ryan Browne
Playboy has decided to suspend all activity on Facebook in response to the data sharing scandal engulfing the social media giant.
The adult publication said Wednesday that it would be exiting the social network and deactivating each of i...